Gun sight



United States Patent GUN SIGHT James H. Council], Holyoke, Mass.

Application October 6, 1952, Serial No. 313,246

1 Claim. (Cl. 3347) My invention relates to new and useful improvements in a gun sight and is directed more particularly to the provision of a unique and novel aiming or sighting means for use on an ordnance piece offering to the marksman an extremely fast target pickup therewith.

It is the principal object of my invention to provide a novel and improved construction of the type in which the sight is adapted for either battle or sporting conditions and may be employed upon any suitable firearm for providing an accurate and rapid means for shooting still and/ or moving targets.

There is the further provision of a construction which may be employed against targets such as enemy troops or game which are in motion and which eliminates the now present objectionable features found in peepsights of the known prior art and which may be employed with a maximum amount of ease and with a minimum degree of effort.

One of the primary purposes of my invention is to provide structural and operational improvements in devices of the class to which reference has been made, which improvements simplify the structure as such, and provide important distinct advantages in improved field view and the like.

Further, by means of my invention, the object being fired at may be covered more easily, improved vision along the horizontal and vertical axes of the peep sight being offered.

It is an additional object of my invention to provide a gun-sight of the class to which reference has been made which may be readily applied to the ordinary or common weapons with a minimum of effort.

With the above primary objects in view, it is another object of my invention to provide a construction of the above described character which is compact in accordance with the demands and desires of riflemen and the like and which is not only distinctive in its appearance and practical in its value but also exceptionally reliable in its operation and efiicient in its use.

Other prime objects of my invention include: first, the securementof a higher degree of accuracy in the manner of work performed therewith than has heretofore been possible with prior devices known in the art; second, the attainment of a flexibility by which a variety of work can be produced by means of the device; third, the provision of a construction which may be readily installed with respect to the purposes for which it is intended; and, fourth, the provision of such other improvements in and relating to sights of the type above referred to as are hereinafter described and claimed.

All of the above objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangements of parts thereof, as will fully appear by a perusal of the description below and by various specific features which will be hereinafter set forth.

To the above cited and other ends and with the fore going and various other novel features and advantages and other objects of my invention as will become more "ice readily apparent as the description proceeds, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more particularly pointed out in the claim hereunto annexed and more fully described and referred to in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the device of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevational view of the device shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the device shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a small scale diagram illustrating the principle of the operation of the device of my invention.

In the above mentioned drawing annexed hereto and forming a part of this specification, I have shown but one embodiment of my invention which is deemed preferable, but it is to be understood that changes and modifications may be made in various respects and within the scope of the appended claim without departing from the broad aspects and spirit of the invention.

In the following description and claim, various details will be identified by specific names for convenience. These names, however, are intended to be as generic in the application as the art will permit.

Referring now to the drawing more in detail, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures, and referring more particularly to the preferred form of my invention selected for illustrative purposes, I have shown a body 6 adapted to be mounted upon a gun barrel and transversely thereof in any of the conventional manner by means of a lower post 8, which post 8 may have a threaded opening 10 extending therethrough and adapted to receive a windage or wind adjustment screw therein. The body 6 may be secured to the weapon in any of the well known manners.

The upper portion of the body 6 includes a master or peep opening 12 extending therethrough and centrally thereof from the forward face to the rearward face thereof.

A secondary light admission opening 14 is provided through the body 6 on either side of the central peep opening 12.

Preferably there will be a pair of openings 14 at opposite sides of the opening 12 which will be relatively larger in diameter than the opening 12, and the longitudinal axes of said openings will be in parallelism on the same horizontal plane.

Connecting one side of the opening 12 and one side of the openings 14, slots 16 are provided. The slots 16 extend through the body 6 from the forward face to the rearward face thereof.

The slots 16 are aligned in the same horizontal plane, which plane traverses the centers of the openings 12 and 14.

In addition, the body 6 is provided with a plurality of relatively smaller openings 18 which are arranged in an are above and around the central peep opening 12. These openings feed in extra needed light to the viewer, which light is useful in fuzzing out the heavier sections of the body, or the sections between the openings 12 and 14 and thereabove whereby an optical illusion is created in the respect that an outer wall of the peep opening 12 is made to appear to be complete throughout the entire circumference thereof. That is to say, the slots 16 and 16 are caused to appear to be separated from the peep opening 12 by means of an imaginary wall portion, all to the end that the peep opening 12 appears to be a completely closed bore. Further, the solid area immediately above the peep sight may be made to fuzz out thereby creating a true sight opening ring.

If desired, the openings 18 instead of being circular as illustrated may comprise elongated slots which slots, if desired, may be directly extended to merge into the openings 12 and 14 in any number of desired configurations.

At one side of the device, a ledge or shelf 20 is provided which extends outwardly away from the face of the device at a point slightly above a plane of the lowermost wall surface of the openings 14 and 14.

The ledge or shelf is slightly tapered and serves as a part of the mount means when the sight is used on a receiver. The ledge is marked centrally thereof with a small groove 22 directly under and centrally of the peep opening 12. This may be made to coincide with the conventional marking device on the receiver so as to compensate for windage and other factors.

Portions of the ledge 20 may be slightly dished as at 24 and 26 so as to merge smoothly with the lowermost wall portions of the openings 14 and 12 respectively whereby, upon sighting therethrough, the vision is completely unobstructed by the shelf.

In Fig. 4, I have illustrated by means of a diagram the operation of the device. The sight 6 mounted upon a weapon W permits the marksman to view the field on either side of his proposed point of impact P. With the proposed point of impact at a distance of 0 yards from the weapon, as shown, it is possible to view the field on either side of the proposed point of impact for a distance of b yards as shown. In actual experimentation, I have determined that at a distance of 100 yards, the field may be viewed for a distance of 24 feet from the proposed point of impact to either side, thereby permitting a field of view which is 48 feet wide.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. Hence, the present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects merely as being illustrative and not as being restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claim rather than by the foregoing description, and all modifications and variations as fall within the meaning and purview and range of equivalency of the appended claim are therefore intended to be embraced therein.

What it is desired to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

A gunsight for securement to a gun barrel comprising, a unitary structure including a lowerpost. for securing toa gun barrel having a body on the upper side thereof provided with rearward and forward vertical faces, said body having a round central master peep opening and a pair of round secondary light-admission openings extending therethrough from rearward to forward faces thereof and disposed in parallel longitudinal axes in the same horizontal plane, the secondary openings of said body being spaced horizontally outwardly from opposite sides of the master peep opening, said body being provided with relatively narrow horizontal light-admission slots extending therethrough from the rearward face to the forward face thereof and communicating with opposite longitudinal sides of the master peep opening and adjacent sides of the secondary openings at opposite sides thereof and having upper and lower faces disposed above and below the plane of the longitudinal axes of the openings, said body being additionally provided with a plurality of upper circular light-admission openings therethrough from the rearward face to the forward face thereof disposed above the master peep opening in relatively spaced relation on the are of a circle having a center on the longitudinal axis of the master peep opening, the secondary openings being relatively larger in diameter and the upper openings being relatively smaller in diameter than the master peep opening.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 613,240 Burton Nov. 1, 1898 1,421,553 Pohl July 4, 1922 2,458,638 Pretzer Jan. 11, 1949 FOREIGN PATENTS 10,555 Great Britain May 8, 1902 599,673 France June 17, l925 

